yuravg / image2device

Script to copy a image-file to a block device(SD card, Flash drive, etc.), it is just a wrapper for the "dd" and "bmaptool" tools.

Introduction

image2device.sh is a script to copy a image-file to a block device(SD card, Flash drive, etc.), it is just a wrapper for the dd and bmaptool tools.

This script simplify usage dd and it just a bit more useful then alias:

alias dd_sync="dd bs=32M conv=sync status=progress"

For bmap-tools it replaces a couple of commands:

bmaptool create -o <bmap-name.bmap> <image-name.img>
sudo bmaptool copy --bmap <bmap-name.bmap> <image-name.img> </path/to/device>

Usage

Download

To get script image2device.sh:

Download the script

or

Clone Git repository git clone https://github.com/yuravg/image2device.git

Install

• copy the script file to some PATH directory (~/bin, /user/local/bin, etc.)

• set the script permission to execute

Example:

$ mv -v image2device.sh ~/bin/
$ sudo chmod +x ~/bin/image2device.sh

or

$ sudo make install

Write image to device

If the script is invoked without command line arguments or with command line argument --help (or -h) then it displays help message and exits.

Template:

$ <script_name> <path-to-image> <path-to-device>

Examples

For use dd

$ image2device.sh ./sdimage.img /dev/sdc

For use bmaptool

$ image2device.sh -b ./sdimage.img /dev/sdc

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